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Monte Cassino January-May 1944 - The Legend of the Green Devils (Hardcover)
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Monte Cassino January-May 1944 - The Legend of the Green Devils (Hardcover)
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In early 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch a massive
assault against German forces in central Italy so they could then
march northwards to Rome. There were three routes available to get
there. The fastest one passed through the Liri valley, but the
entrance was blocked by the rugged Monte Cassino massif, with its
hilltop medieval monastery and the town below. In front of them ran
the Gustav Line: the most formidably constructed defensive line the
Western Allies would ever come up against. The second possible
route would be to outflank the Gustav Line to reach the valley, but
they would then also have to capture the innumerable rough peaks
and ridges along the massif, on a treacherous terrain that only
favoured the defenders. The third and final option would be to
breach the Gustav Line directly in front of the town, which would
mean engaging in costly house-to-house fighting until they dug out
the very last of the stubborn German paratroopers lurking beneath
the rubble. They decided to try all three, but none of them were
easy, and all proved deadly.
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